The 2.2.8 can be rooted fairly easily through a feature in the built in file explorer.

This is written so that those who knows their way around linux can follow it as they should know the consequences of doing things wrong... The information in here can make your life really miserable and I don't want any part in that!

This was tested on my straight out of the box NS2, your mileage might vary...

For information for anyone using Mac OS X: it is not necessary to use Linux or an ext2-formatted USB stick to get this procedure to work. On the Mac, replace the first step in the original post with:

- Mount a HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) formatted USB stick on a your Mac.

HFS+ is the standard format used by OS X, but you can check and reformat your stick, if needed, using Disk Utility.

You can now follow the rest of the procedure, using the Terminal application to create the appropriate symbolic links as described in the original post. The NetworkSpace 2 recognises the HFS+ formatted USB stick and symlinks fine when you mount it in the NS2 USB port. Much easier for a Mac user than trying to get access to a Linux system or an ext2 filesystem driver.

Might be that you could altogether skip the USB stick, might be possible to just create a USB share and format that as HFS+.

http://manuals.lacie.com/en/manuals/ns2-nsmax/usb
Technical note: USBShare, when it is created by the LaCie NAS OS, is formatted in MS-DOS (FAT32) for use with PCs and Macs. You may format USBShare into a different file format (NTFS or HFS+) using your computer's native disk management application.

- Launch the file browser from the web console, browse to the MyShare share.
- Right click on default.runlevel, select open in -> other -> source editor
- Fix the sshd entry
- Reboot the NS2
- Edit the shadow using the method above (copy the admin hash to the root account)
- ssh as root to your NS2 on port 2222.

- Launch the file browser from the web console, browse to the MyShare share.
- Right click on default.runlevel, select open in -> other -> source editor
- Fix the sshd entry
- Reboot the NS2
- Edit the shadow using the method above (copy the admin hash to the root account)
- ssh as root to your NS2 on port 2222.

I confirm that this still works on NS2 with 2.2.10.1 update. Thx for this.